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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay
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Meanwhile, here are the latest blogs. They can also be found on the Bug Squad blog, Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/TheBugSquad

March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025:  In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega
 
March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science
 
March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way
 
March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A potato bug, aka Jerusalem cricket, at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato...Four

November 12th, 2021
One potato, two potato, three potato...four... Well, make that "one potato bug, two potato bugs, three potato bugs...four." The potato bug, also known as a Jerusalem cricket, seems to be everywhere in the Bay Area after the heavy rains.
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A sign in front of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis includes a skep with a hole tunneling to a hive in the back. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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In Defense of Our Lives, In Defense of Our Hives

November 11th, 2021
It's Veterans' Day, the day we officially salute, honor and commemorate our military veterans. Let's pay special tribute to the servicemen and women who left the family farm to serve in our military. They were the farmers who fed the nation.
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Nature photographer Nicky Bay countered the Facebook post with this tweet. (Screen shot)
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Oh, Those Beach-Bum Spiders!

November 9th, 2021
Halloween is over, but the misinformation spread about spiders never will be. Some folks just despise spiders. A Facebook post that went viral has resulted in USA Today setting the record straight today (Nov. 9) by conferring with UC Davis arachnologist Jason Bond.
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